RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4499 locations in the last 30 days (4672 reports) · Last sighting 16 hours ago

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What am I looking at?

Each circle is a Chicago neighborhood. The number is its report count — click one to zoom in and see individual sightings there.

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Colors are relative to what’s currently on screen, so they adjust as you switch time ranges.

Zoomed into a neighborhood or zip? Same colors group nearby reports, and a bright dot means that exact spot’s been reported more than once.

Why Chicago keeps score on its rats

Chicago has topped national rankings of the rattiest U.S. cities for over a decade running — a reputation the city itself takes seriously enough to run one of the country’s most active 311 rodent-complaint programs. Every baiting request, burrow report, and complaint filed with the city becomes a public record. RatCity turns that record, plus reports from people who live here, into a map you can actually use: is this block bad? Is it getting worse? Which neighborhood is winning (or losing) the fight this month?

What’s actually on the map

Most of the data is Chicago’s own — every “Rodent Baiting/Rat Complaint” filed through 311, pulled in automatically once a day so the map never goes stale. Layered on top are sightings reported directly by visitors, matched to the same neighborhood and zip-code boundaries the city uses, so a resident’s report and an official 311 complaint carry equal weight on the map.

Reading the map

Circles are sized and colored by how many reports a neighborhood has racked up — blue is quiet, red means trouble. The Day / Week / 30 Days / Year toggle up top changes the window, so you can see whether a neighborhood’s rat problem is a one-week blip or a year-long trend. Whoever’s in the lead gets crowned the neighborhood Rat King in the sidebar, a title that changes hands as new reports come in.

Noticed a rat that isn’t on the map yet? Use “Report a sighting” above — it takes under a minute and goes live as soon as it’s reviewed. Curious about where the data actually comes from or how reports are moderated? See the About page for the full breakdown.

Want more? The blog has weekly trend recaps and guides on Chicago’s rat problem and how to keep it out of your home.

Browse every sighting

57,792 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
4/23/20263912 N RIDGEWAY AVEIrving Park45Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/23/20264123 N KEELER AVEIrving Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/8/20264136 N KEDZIE AVEIrving Park33Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/23/20263673 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/28/20263918 N KENNETH AVEIrving Park30Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/3/20264735 N KEATING AVEIrving Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/5/20263675 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/25/20263700 N SPAULDING AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/25/20263619 N ALBANY AVEIrving Park35Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/28/20264303 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park39Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/24/20264153 N HAMLIN AVEIrving Park39Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
4/24/20264513 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park39Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/12/20253219 N KARLOV AVEIrving Park30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/28/20264617 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park39Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
10/15/20253321 W PENSACOLA AVEIrving Park33Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/28/20264614 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park39Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/27/20264243 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park39Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/28/20263919 N TRIPP AVEIrving Park30Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/30/20263909 N TRIPP AVEIrving Park30Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/20264000 N KENNETH AVEIrving Park45Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/13/20253218 W BELLE PLAINE AVEIrving Park33Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/25/20264447 N KENTON AVEIrving Park39Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/15/20253835 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park30Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/30/20263407 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park30Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
2/3/20263700 N SPAULDING AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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